Razzle, Dazzle Your Parents at Open House

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Razzle, Dazzle Your Parents at Open House
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Create a folder

• Create a blank folder on your desktop
• SAVE ALL related powerpoint items in this folder
• Including PICTURES
• MUSIC
• BORDERS

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Step 1

• Open Powerpoint
• Start
• All Programs
• Microsoft Office
• Powerpoint

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Step 2

• Creating a slide from scratch

In the next step you will create a Title Slide
for your presentation using the Blank
Presentation option. You will be working in Slide
View. 1. Open the PowerPoint program. The
PowerPoint dialog box appears.
                                                  
                                        
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2. In the PowerPoint dialog box, click the Blank
Presentation option button. The New Slide dialog
box appears. It asks you to choose an AutoLayout
format. 3. Click the Title Slide layout. It's
the first in the list. The name Title Slide
appears in the preview box.
                                              
                                                
4. Click OK. A Title Slide appears, ready for
you to work with.
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Note The PowerPoint dialog box appears only when
you first launch the program. If you are already
working in PowerPoint and want to create a new
blank presentation, click the New button    
on the Standard Toolbar or follow these steps
1. Click the File menu, then Click New.
                                                  
           2. In the New Presentation dialog
box, click Blank Presentation, and then click OK.

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Adding text to a slide

• 1. Click in the Title text box. A thick gray
  border appears around the text box indicating
  that it is selected.
• 2. Type a title.
• 3. Click the Subtitle text box and type a
  subtitle.

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Adding another slide
1. Click the New Slide button on the Common
Tasks toolbar.                                 
                          2. The AutoLayout
dialog box will appear. Choose a layout for your
next slide.
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Moving from slide to slide

• To move to a previous slide
• Click the upper double-arrow button   on the
  lower right corner of the PowerPoint window. The
  previous slide will appear.
• To move to the next slide
• 1. Click the lower double-arrow button   on
  the lower right corner of the PowerPoint window.

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What is Outline View?

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Switching to Outline View
To switch to Outline View, click the Outline View
button in the lower left-hand corner of the
PowerPoint window.                             
                                                 
     This is what you should see in Outline
View                                          
                                                  
        
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Adding a slide to your outline You can add a
new slide in Outline View the same way that you
do in Slide View. 1. On the Common Tasks
toolbar, click New Slide. 2. In the New Slide
dialog box, click a slide layout, then click OK.
A new slide icon appears in your outline.
                                                  
                                                 
                         You can also add new
slides quickly by using the Enter key. To add a
new slide right after a slide title 1. Place
your cursor at the end of a slide title.
                                                  
                                                  
                       2. Press the Enter key.
A new slide icon will appear in your outline.
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Adding text to your outline
If you want to add text to a slide that you
created previously, click an insertion point in
the outline and start typing. If you want to add
text to a new slide you've created in Outline
View, follow these steps 1. Type a title beside
the slide icon. 2. After the slide title, press
the Enter key. PowerPoint adds a new slide. 3.
Click the Demote button on the outline toolbar to
convert the new slide to a text object.
                                                  
                                   4. Type your
text.                                          
                                              
5. To add another bullet point, press Enter.
Note With the exception of the title slide, any
text you add will be formatted as a bullet point.
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Moving around in Outline View
When you are in Outline View, you see all the
text that appears on your slides. However,
PowerPoint lets you collapse the view, so you see
only the outline titles. Use this option if you
want to print an outline of your presentation, or
if you want to check the logical flow of your
slide titles without the distraction of extra
text. To collapse all the slides in your
outline 1. On the Outline Toolbar, click the
Collapse All button. The slide text for all the
slides will disappear. (-)                     
                                                  
          To expand all of the slide titles
again 1. Click the Expand All button on the
Outline toolbar. The text for all the slides will
appear again. ()                              
                                                  
     
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Changing your background color
1. Click the Format menu, then click Background.
The Background dialog box will appear.
                                                  
                                              
2. In the Background fill section, click the
arrow on the list box to open it. 3. Click More
colors to open the Colors dialog box.
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4. In the Colors section, click a light shade of
blue.                                       
                             5. Click OK to
close the Colors dialog box. 6. In the
Background dialog box, click the Preview button
to see a preview of the slide color. 7. If you
like what you see, click the Apply button. The
background color of the slide is now light blue.
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Adding your own works of art
1. Click the Insert menu, point to Picture, and
then click From File. The Insert Picture dialog
box will appear.                               
                                                  
                  2. In the Look in box, find
the drive and folder where the artwork is
located.
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3. In the File name box, enter the name of the
file. Then click the Insert button.
                                                  
                                            
4. The drawing is inserted on the slide.
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Adding sound to animations
Some of the animations in PowerPoint, for
example, the Flying Effect, already have sound
built into them. But most of the animations do
not have sound effects. In PowerPoint you can
add sound to any animation. You can also replace
the current sound effect on an animation with a
new one.
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1. In Slide View, select the animated object you
want to add the sound effect to by clicking it.
2. Click the Slide Show menu, then click Custom
Animation. You can also click the Custom
Animation button on the Animation Effects
toolbar.                                      
                                                  
        
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3. Under Entry animation and sound, select a
sound effect from the drop-down list.
                                                 
                  4. If you want to preview the
sound effect, click the Preview Button. 5. Click
OK to add the sound to the animation. The sound
is added to the animated object.
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Adding sound files from other sources
You can add sound files to your presentations
from a variety of sources. For example, you can
add sound files you find on the Internet or
special sound effects CDs. However, PowerPoint
does not recognize all sound file types. WAV and
MIDI are two of the types it does recognize.
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• Click the Insert menu, point to Movies and
  Sounds, then click Sound from File.
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• 2. In the Look in box, specify the drive and
  folder where the sound file is located.

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3. In the file list, click the sound file you
want, then click OK.
                                                  
                          PowerPoint will add
a speaker icon to your slide.
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• www.lancastersd.k12.wi.us/winskin/openhouse/openpp
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